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¹ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fig.² The godly has perished from the earth, and the upright is not among man: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.³ Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asks, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.⁴ The best of them is as a brier; the upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now shall be their perplexity.⁵ Don't trust in a neighbor; don't put confidence in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.⁶ For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.⁸ Don't rejoice against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.⁹ I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause, and executes judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall see his righteousness.¹⁰ Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? My eyes shall see [my desire] on her; now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.¹¹ A day for building your walls! in that day the decree shall be far removed.¹² In that day they shall come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.¹³ Yet the land shall be desolate because of those that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

¹⁴ Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.¹⁵ As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt I will show him marvelous things.¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand on their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear to Yahweh our God, and shall be afraid because of you.¹⁸ Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving-kindness.¹⁹ He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.²⁰ You will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the loving-kindness to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.